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Automotive Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (4): 691-702.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2024.04.015

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Study on Automatic Parking Motion Planning Method for Tractor-Semitrailer Based on SMPA

Yuanmin Wang1,Yafei Wang2,Wengang Qin2,Hao Chen1,Yinhua Liu1()   

  1. 1.School of Mechanical Engineering,University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai 200093
    2.School of Mechanical Engineering,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240
  • Received:2023-08-15 Revised:2023-10-18 Online:2024-04-25 Published:2024-04-24
  • Contact: Yinhua Liu E-mail:liuyinhua@usst.edu.cn

Abstract:

The unstable kinematic characteristics of tractor-semitrailer vehicles bring considerable challenges for autonomous motion planning in the parking process. In this paper, sequential motion planning algorithm (SMPA) is proposed to address the problems of low efficiency of parking motion planning algorithms and poor smoothness of results for tractor-semitrailer in static scenario with multiple obstacles. Firstly, an initial path generation method based on the quadratic planning strategy and improved bidirectional rapidly-exploring random tree algorithm (Bi-RRT) is proposed. Then, combined with the study of path node feasibility discrimination method under vehicle non-complete differential constraints, a probability-based target bias sampling strategy is proposed to improve the sampling efficiency. Finally, a nonlinear optimal control model oriented to the continuity of the control variables of the vehicle system is constructed to solve the docking problem of the parking reversal point and improve the parking trajectory smoothness. Simulation results show that this method reduces the planning time by 86.71% and 21.44% compared to Hybrid A* and Bi-RRT, respectively, in multi obstacle scenarios, with more superior trajectory quality.

Key words: tractor-semitrailer automatic parking, quadratic programming, improved Bi-RRT, nonlinear optimal control model